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Nurses eating on shift...

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PatsyAndEddy · 12/07/2013 20:44

Just back from hospital visiting a friend who had her tonsils out today. She had to fast from 10 pm last night and didn't get taken for her op until 2pm, that's a long time without food for anyone!

She missed dinner on the ward but they got her a sandwich but she's really sore and hungry!

On the ward her bed is right next to the nurses station. She said they were sitting munching on a large bag of kettle chips in front of her between the three of them. She commented on how she thought that was a but mean, they snapped back saying 'well we have to eat' at which point my friend reminded them that's what they're breaks were for.

I don't think she's flavour of the month in the ward! She can be a bit of a grump at the best of times but starving, sore and groggy I think she reached her limit!

We're the nurses being unreasonable, eating on shift?

OP posts:
XBenedict · 14/07/2013 15:53

No that's not likely is it, but all 3 of them on the ward unlikely to get a break anytime soon/at all - now that's reasonably likely IME

TimeofChange · 14/07/2013 15:54

This thread is making me want to give big packets of Kettle crisps in a variety of flavours to the nursing staff every time I visit someone in hospital!

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PatsyAndEddy · 14/07/2013 15:55

On a quiet ward? 4 beds filled, 5 staff floating around?

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SpecialAgentTattooedQueen · 14/07/2013 15:55

Okay Patsy. I won't bother reporting that one as I see you are spoiling for a fight, which is clearly why you started this thread. You called me names, and after I explained they were hurtful you still used them. Now implying my MH caused me to disagree with you? After being deleted twice for nasty MH bashing? Classy. That's why you were deleted. MNHQ does't agree with that kind of name calling. Take it up with them if you disagree.

I explained my Madonna/Whore analogy. (Allegory? Metaphor? AHH too confusing Grin) If you didn't understand it or are being deliberately obtuse, that's your problem. Others understood fine

Oh, and your friend being a total cunt isn't a ramble, it's my opinion on her behaviour. She behaved like a cunt.

I'll use the word bitch from now on if that would make you feel better? Cunt is just the word I use for people I believe are the lowest of the low, like your bully of a friend.

But as I said, you're spoiling for a fight, I suspect you'll just reply to this with a passive aggressive undercut remark, so go ahead. I actually feel sorry for you as opposed to frustrated like last night when I still thought you might be being unreasonable as opposed to deliberately obtuse.

Grumpy Don't pull out! Just because there are cunts bitches here who think The Patient Is Always Right doesn't mean the majority of us feel that way! You sound like you'd make an amazing nurse. Flowers

EarthtoMajorTom · 14/07/2013 15:55

Has anyone mentioned on the last nineteen pages how many nurses are obese ?

XBenedict · 14/07/2013 15:57

Wow 4 patients and 5 staff on an NHS ward! Never in 19 years of nursing have I ever experienced that!

SpecialAgentTattooedQueen · 14/07/2013 15:58

OP just wants a bunfight I think. She asked if she WBU, most posters said yes she WBU, and she just got more and more inflammatory and continues to drip feed.

Nurses get a raw deal in our society. I look forward to the day they kick their heels in!

I'm glad this thread is here, it shows just how many of us do support nurses and what they do despite the media bashing. Flowers

Original poster
PatsyAndEddy · 14/07/2013 15:58

Oh my.

You appear to be in need of a grip.

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TimeofChange · 14/07/2013 15:59

Being large is often the result of not eating decent healthy meals regularly.
I cannot imagine working a 12 hour nursing shift and then going home to cook a nutritous meal for myself.

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PatsyAndEddy · 14/07/2013 16:00

I didn't ask if I was being unreasonable. I asked if the nurses were. I didn't ask for you opinion on my mate, but you've been keen to call her a cunt at every corner based on what? 2 lines about her after an op?

You are quite the charmer.

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SpecialAgentTattooedQueen · 14/07/2013 16:00

Wow 4 patients and 5 staff on an NHS ward! Never in 19 years of nursing have I ever experienced that!

Not a nurse but have spent many time in and out of hospital with DS, it's almost like this is all just to start a fight!

Well, at least we know most posters think friend is a self entitled cunt and nurses work their asses off.

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PatsyAndEddy · 14/07/2013 16:02

Like I said way way back, it might have been busier earlier in the day but that was the situation at visiting time.

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littlemefi · 14/07/2013 16:03

And you were there for the whole shift to see if they got their break were you?
I doubt it.

Pobblewhohasnotoes · 14/07/2013 16:03

I don't expect you to understand this OP but sometimes on a night shift if it's a bit quieter, it's the only time we get to have a cup of tea and a bit of a chat with our work colleagues, many of whom are friends.

No ward has four beds. A bay might have four beds.

SpecialAgentTattooedQueen · 14/07/2013 16:03

She is a cunt. She's the sort of person who thinks it's suitable to scold and lecture the people caring for her because they were so insensitive as to need to eat.

So yeah, IMO she's a cunt and nurses WNBU. People like that are just the lowest.

If you post in AIBU, people will tell you what they think. It's a risk you take here, and in fact anywhere on MN/the internet.

XBenedict · 14/07/2013 16:04

I'm not trying to pick a fight, far from it! I was being quite serious, I am not disbelieving the OP one bit and if that is the case then the nurses in question maybe were being unreasonable but it still stands that I have never worked a shift with more staff than patients.

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PatsyAndEddy · 14/07/2013 16:04

The ward had twelve beds. 8 empty. It wasn't the night shift, they started coming in towards the end of visiting.

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SpecialAgentTattooedQueen · 14/07/2013 16:05

Anyway, you're entitled to think your friend is justified, I'm entitled to think she's a cunt, you're entitled to think as you will of my opinion etc etc, such is the way of the internet.

On that point at least, I'm done. Can't change how I feel on that front and neither can you.

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PatsyAndEddy · 14/07/2013 16:06

The lowest? Really? No one in society lower than someone having a grump after an op when feeling pretty prettysorry for themselves? No one?

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SpecialAgentTattooedQueen · 14/07/2013 16:06

No, no XBenedict, I meant OP not you! Sarcasm doesn't work through text. Blush

Original poster
PatsyAndEddy · 14/07/2013 16:06

Have I said she was reasonable? Not once actually.

OP posts:
XBenedict · 14/07/2013 16:07

Whoops sorry! Blush

SpecialAgentTattooedQueen · 14/07/2013 16:10

Oh, of course. I'm referring to general society (as in manners/behaviour to those around them) not criminal behaviours, that's an entirely different topic.

Someone who sits in a hospital and is that nasty and beyond entitled to sneer at the people caring for them is yes, pretty much down there on the bottom rungs as far as I'm concerned.

But as I said, you think she was reasonable and I certainly don't think she was.

You yourself said that wasn't the point of the thread. Since neither of will change our minds, I won't respond to the topic of your friend BU or not.

SpecialAgentTattooedQueen · 14/07/2013 16:11

It's all good XBenedict (Excellent name BTW!) Grin

XBenedict · 14/07/2013 16:13

Why thank you Smile